Entire program – July 7, 2009

Today on The World: A government curfew fails to cool ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China; also, the obstacles that could make it hard for the United States and Russia to start on a new and improved relationship; plus, how technology activists around the world are working to help Iranians get [...]

Ethnic tensions still high in western China

The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the latest on escalating ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese in China’s western Xinjiang region.
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China’s media strategy

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Xiao Qiang director of the University of California, Berkeley’s China Internet Project, about China’s strategy for handling media coverage of the protests in western China. He says the Chinese government is allowing international journalists to cover the unrest, while cracking down on press coverage.
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Helping Iranians bypass web censorship

Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on how technology activists around the globe are working to help Iranians bypass their government’s Internet censorship.
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Iran protests

Emotions and politics

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with philosopher Dominique Moisi about his new book “The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World.”
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US-Russian relations hard to reset

Correspondent Jessica Golloher examines some of the challenges for Russia and the United States as leaders of both countries tout a message of cooperation following President Obama’s visit to Moscow.
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Obama, Russia, and the G8

The World’s Gerry Hadden reports on European reaction to President Obama’s visit to Moscow. Obama headed straight to the G8 summit in Italy after his meeting with Russian President Medvedev.
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Geo Quiz

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US military recruiting immigrants

The US military has launched a pilot project to recruit immigrants to serve in the armed forces. The military wants their language skills. As Jason Strother reports, many of those who’ve answered the call are native Korean speakers.
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Geo Quiz Answer

Today’s Geo Quiz asked you to name the country with the most nuclear fallout shelter space per citizen. The answer is Switzerland. Now tourists can get a taste of life inside one of these shelters in the form of the the Null Stern Hotel. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the man behind the [...]

Global Hit: Michael Jackson in Liberia

For today’s Global Hit, we hear from Emmanuel Gardiner, whose family left Liberia for the United States after a coup in 1980. Among his most treasured possessions was Michael Jackson’s album “Off the Wall.” Listen More Global Hits